What theme does is it empowers a novel or story. There is a reoccurring theme throughout the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. Williams uses the symbolism of the movies, the fire escape, and the nailed coffin to illustrate his theme that the harshness of reality often leads to escape. These symbols all support the theme of escape and freedom. The fire escape is always an escape for Tom when he wanted time to …showed first 75 words of 1003 total…

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